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Mali Hermans

Portrait photograph of Mali Hermans, who wears a relaxed smile with closed lips. She is looking into the camera. She has shoulder-length straight hair that is light brown in colour, and fair skin with slightly rosy cheeks and a light fringe. In the background are light-coloured walls – one flat and one bricked – with a peach-coloured light illuminating one side, casting the outline of some indoor plants in shadow

Mali Hermans (she/they) is a disabled and neurodivergent Koori and European woman living in Meanjin/Brisbane. Mali is a community organiser, worker and writer deeply invested in disability justice and abolitionist work, committed to challenging ableism and the many oppressive systems and institutions it remains embedded within throughgrassroots mutual aid work with the Disability Justice Network.

Mali has had work published in Overland and the Guardian among others, and has appeared at events such as the Sydney Writers’ Festival and Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Twitter: @malihermans